David Abram

Keynote Presenter

Biography

David Abram, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher, is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. Hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, David’s work helped catalyzed the emergence of several new disciplines, including the burgeoning field of ecopsychology. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of environmental disarray are published in numerous magazines, scholarly journals, and anthologies. Named by both the Utne Reader and the British journal Resurgence as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, David has been a recipient of the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, as well as fellowships from the Watson and Rockefeller Foundations. In 2014 he held the international Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and Ecology at the University of Oslo. Co-founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE), David lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rockies